[TYPO3-hci] automatic update extension

[Andreas Balzer]

Michael Scharkow schrieb:
> JoH wrote:
> 
>> Better example:
>> apt-get upgrade ;-)
> 
> But this is still explicitly triggered by the admin.
> 
> I see two serious drawbacks to an automated upgrade:
> 
> 1. If something fails, the site will be broken and we'll finally have 
> the situation that users can rightfully state "I did not change anything 
> but the installation is b0rked". This may be okay for Windows users who 
> are accustomed to things suddenly being broken without them doing 
> anything but it's very bad for reasonable web masters. It makes 
> debugging extremely hard and will lead to more strange support requests.
> 
> 2. Technically, you cannot control these timed uprades with TYPO3 
> because it's not running continously like cron, so you either have to 
> use an external cronjob or add a hook to the FE that periodically checks 
> for new extensions whenever a page is requested.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
Hi
1. What about updating and backuping ( ;) )?
If something fails you just switch back.

2. over Fe or via the same Cronejob that you use, to publish your 
contents by time

Andreas